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A “Friday Night” match in Serie B with 36 “scudetti” on the ground.
Saturday, 02 December 06, 11:25 AM · Comments (0)
Tonight at 8.45PM (GMT +1), at “Luigi Ferraris” stadium in Genoa, there's a part of the Italian football history. Genoa vs. Juventus Turin is not only an important match for the promotion in Serie A, it’s also a total of 36 titles won by the two teams together.
Genoa in particular is the oldest existing Italian club, founded in 1893 by some Englishmen living there for working reasons. There was a doctor like J.B. Spensley, D.G. Fawcus (a manager in a textile firm) and most of all Charles Alfred Payton, British Consul in Genoa: they were pioneers in an unexplored country. The difference between Genoa and Juventus is that the Genoans won their 9 “scudetti” between 1898 and 1924, while Juve –founded in 1897 by a group of students- continued winning until last years. This doesn’t allow us to forget why these two glorious teams are now laying in second division.
Genoa, after its “golden age”, started going up and down between Serie A and Serie B, touching its lowest point a couple of years ago, when the “rosso-blu” won serie B but at the end they were relegated in third division due to a match fixing. Everybody knows what happened last summer to Juventus. Bianconeri were not only relegated with 30 points of penalization (then turned into 9), but their last two titles have also been revoked: the first not assigned at all, the second one assigned to Inter Milan.
Anyway, it’s a good thing that –despite the scandals- this year Serie B increased its average attendance: that’s not only because of Juve (the “bianconeri” recently moved to Olympic Stadium with 24000 seats capacity), but also other big cities’ teams full of history such as Bologna, Naples, Genoa are giving their contribution. Serie B is still far from the successful English second league, the “Championship”, which is the fifth league in Europe for attendance and turnover, but everybody in Italy hopes that this will be a good season, after years of depression.
Just a curiosity: two days ago in the official Juventus website (www.juventus.com) in the presentation of the match it was written that it is very important for the "scudetto". Then it has been updated, then they changed the word scudetto into "promotion"...
Genoa in particular is the oldest existing Italian club, founded in 1893 by some Englishmen living there for working reasons. There was a doctor like J.B. Spensley, D.G. Fawcus (a manager in a textile firm) and most of all Charles Alfred Payton, British Consul in Genoa: they were pioneers in an unexplored country. The difference between Genoa and Juventus is that the Genoans won their 9 “scudetti” between 1898 and 1924, while Juve –founded in 1897 by a group of students- continued winning until last years. This doesn’t allow us to forget why these two glorious teams are now laying in second division.
Genoa, after its “golden age”, started going up and down between Serie A and Serie B, touching its lowest point a couple of years ago, when the “rosso-blu” won serie B but at the end they were relegated in third division due to a match fixing. Everybody knows what happened last summer to Juventus. Bianconeri were not only relegated with 30 points of penalization (then turned into 9), but their last two titles have also been revoked: the first not assigned at all, the second one assigned to Inter Milan.
Anyway, it’s a good thing that –despite the scandals- this year Serie B increased its average attendance: that’s not only because of Juve (the “bianconeri” recently moved to Olympic Stadium with 24000 seats capacity), but also other big cities’ teams full of history such as Bologna, Naples, Genoa are giving their contribution. Serie B is still far from the successful English second league, the “Championship”, which is the fifth league in Europe for attendance and turnover, but everybody in Italy hopes that this will be a good season, after years of depression.
Just a curiosity: two days ago in the official Juventus website (www.juventus.com) in the presentation of the match it was written that it is very important for the "scudetto". Then it has been updated, then they changed the word scudetto into "promotion"...
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Gabriele
Roma, IT
Un posto diverso da Calciopoli, molto più bello!
